Eve Warburton – There are plenty of reasons to view this year's presidential elections in Indonesia as less polarising than the last.

Nur Yasmin and Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Indonesia's Election Supervisory Agency announced on Tuesday (16/04) they had discovered 25 cases of "money politics" – bribing people to influ

James Massola, Jakarta – More than 190 million Indonesians will be able to vote in the largest single-day election exercise in the world on Wednesday, with President Joko "Jokowi" Wido

Tomorrow is finally the big day – nearly 193 million Indonesian voters will have their chance to go to the polls and choose the country's next president.

Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is famous for many things besides politics, such as his marriage to Suharto's second daughter, his service to Indonesia as a former general, his

David Fettling – Haris Azhar thinks both Indonesia's presidential candidates are incompetent, that the issues they debate are nonsense, that both seek to protect the status quo.

Jakarta – National Development Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro attended an Indonesia-International Monetary Fund (IMF) bilateral meeting to discuss public investment management

Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu – On Wednesday, Indonesians go to the polls to determine their next president.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has formed a team to monitor Wednesday's general election.

Asip Hasani, Blitar, East Java – At least 240 Shia adherents in Sidoarjo, East Java, will be able to vote in a shelter, an East Java General Elections Commission (KPU East Java) offici

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) has been listed among the world's top 50 in gender equality according to the recently announced Times Higher Education University

Jakarta – Statistics Indonesia (BPS) has recorded that crude palm oil (CPO) exports to Europe saw a significant decrease in March as a result of the negative campaign against the commo

Jakarta – The Jakarta Transportation Agency is preparing 16,578 free trips using 307 buses for people traveling home on Idul Fitri this year.

Francisca Christy Rosana, Jakarta – The country's 2019 presidential election is still strongly marred by religious polarization according to Gadjah Mada University political expert Dod

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Indonesia's human development index – a composite measurement for a long and healthy life, good education and decent standard of living – rose to 71.39 in 2018,

Jakarta (Antara) – West Sumatra's Solok City Police Chief Grand Adj.

Dias Prasongko, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded that the country's Human Development Index (IPM) in 2018 reached 71.39 – up by 0.58 points or 0.82 percent compar

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – The Defense Ministry signed contract agreements worth Rp 2.1 trillion (US$149.01 million) and $1.4 billion with several local companies in Bandung on Fr

While the running mate of his rival plans to visit a self-exiled former pornography suspect for guidance and prayers in Saudi, President Joko Widodo, who is also in Saudi for the Umrah

Just like President Joko Widodo, vice presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno – running mate to Prabowo Subianto – flew to Saudi Arabia yesterday to carry out the Umrah pilgrimage.

Before he was released from prison in January, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former Jakarta governor formerly known as Ahok, requested that people call him BTP instead as prison had chan

Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono, Jakarta, Indonesia – Joko Widodo, the Muslim president of Indonesia, is into heavy metal and saving Christians.

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Endy M. Bayuni – From the start, the April 17 Indonesian presidential election was going to be an unequal race.

Apriadi Gunawan and Suherdjoko, Medan – Over the weekend, only days before the elections, some of the country's youth staged rallies to encourage people to vote while protest voters, w

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – Indonesia recorded a trade balance surplus of US$540 million in March, marking the second straight month that the country recorded a trade balance sur

Jonathan Chen – Various minority groups in Indonesia face an inconvenient truth: whoever wins the election, they will end up losing, as candidates ignore minority interests in favour o

Rena Sarumpaet – From her home in Jakarta, Permaswari Wardani proudly holds up an intricate hand-drawn comic.

Liam Gammon, Sydney – When Joko Widodo was first a candidate for Indonesia's presidency five years ago, one might have looked to his successful career in local government for clues as

Christian Lee, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud have agreed during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on Sunday to further strengthen economic

Jakarta – The deputy chairperson of Prabowo Subianto's Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra), Arief Poyuono, will report US independent journalist Allan Nairn to the police who h

Allan Nairn, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto, a retired general now seeking the presidency of Indonesia, has made plans to stage mass arrests of political opponents and his current allies.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who is better known as "Jokowi," is up for re-election on Wednesday.

Indonesia's general elections are this Wednesday but millions of Indonesians living overseas had their chance to vote over the weekend at polling booths set up across the planet.

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – The fifth and last presidential debate on Saturday touched on the issue of nationalism in the economy as well as inequality, but all

Erwida Maulia and Shotaro Tani, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's signature infrastructure drive dominated his final TV debate with opponent Prabowo Subianto before

James Massola, Jakarta – Joko Widodo is running late.

Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – For more than a year now, politics has dominated the real and virtual conversations of Indonesian journalists.

Jakarta – In a rare departure from his xenophobic rhetoric, presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto praised China for its drastic reduction of poverty over the past 40 years, a feat he

Ed Davies, Jakarta – When Indonesian President Joko Widodo was elected five years ago, the former furniture salesman seemed to offer a clean break from the military and political elite

Gayatri Suroyo, Maikel Jefriando, Grinting – In several ways, Tama had President Joko Widodo to thank for his crop.

Muhammad Asad – Of late, we've seen many incidents of intolerance throughout Indonesia, especially hatred on social media over religion.

N. Adri, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Excessive sedimentation and deforestation are endangering three great lakes in East Kalimantan, namely Semayang, Melintang and Jempang.

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – Women's empowerment in small businesses and a finance system for startups will be discussed during this year's second meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Coopera

Christian Lee, Jakarta – Starting from today, Indonesian voters will go through masa tenang, a mandatory three-day "quiet period" before heading to the polling booths on Wednesday (17/

Nur Yasmin Jakarta – BTP, the acronym for Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the ex-Jakarta governor formerly known as Ahok, uploaded another vlog on YouTube on Saturday (13/04) to explain why he

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – While the presidential candidates made the final pitches in their political campaigns, activists from various backgrounds gathered at the offices of the Indonesia

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Indonesian election authorities in Malaysia have ensured that the voting process for Malaysia-based voters will be held on Sunday as scheduled despite the ongo

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A rock-concert-like atmosphere pervaded inside the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium in Jakarta as tens of thousands of people sang along to legendary r

Marchio Irfan Gorbiano and Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto opened the final presidential debate on Saturday with an indictment of the Indonesian economy,